SCENARIO 7-1 The Time Spent Studying by Students in the Week Before

question 37

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SCENARIO 7-1
The time spent studying by students in the week before final exams follows a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 8 hours.A random sample of 4 students was taken to estimate the mean study time for the population of all students.
-Referring to Scenario 7-1,what is the probability that the sample mean differs from the population mean by less than 2 hours?

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